NHL Entry Draft

Former NHL hockey player Sergei Berezin and wife Lyudmila Ustakova were among 13 people arrested this week in connection with a health-care fraud scheme. The Boca Raton couple is charged with filing a false Medicaid claim and conspiracy to commit Medicaid fraud. Berezin, 43, and Ustakova, 46, paid to have their records falsified in order to obtain Medicaid and food stamp benefits, state fraud investigators said. The couple, and others, paid a fee to Irma Davidian, 52, of Boca Raton, who then paid government employees to process and approve falsified benefits applications. The couple falsely billed Medicaid $28,687 and $38,915 between January 2010 and December 2013, authorities...

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VOORHEES, N.J. — Ivan Provorov understands that being the No. 7 overall pick in the NHL Entry Draft last month brings a set of expectations.
Provorov said the Flyers have expressed few expectations for him at the 2015 Development Camp, which began...

It didn’t take long for Flyers general manager Ron Hextall to get his backup goaltender situation resolved.
Just an hour after NHL free agency opened at noon on Wednesday, Hextall came to terms on a two-year contract with goaltender Michal Neuvirth.The...

The Flyers continued to reshape their roster on Monday when they sent forward Zac Rinaldo to the Boston Bruins in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
Saturday, the Flyers dealt defenseman Nick Grossmann and the contract of...

Sometimes you don't get lucky at the NHL Entry Draft and sometimes you do.
It's safe to say the Flyers fell into the latter category in Friday night's first round at BB&T Center.
There was plenty of anxiety at the Flyers' table when the New Jersey...

The 76ers didn't get their much-needed guard in the NBA Draft last night, but the Eagles are on the verge of landing one, according to multiple reports. John Moffitt, 28, is expected to come out of retirement and sign with the Eagles today if he passes...

So much has been said and written about which player the Flyers might take first at the NHL Entry Draft. But the guessing game actually should begin well before Philadelphia's name is called Friday night at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla.
Because it...

Flyers director of scouting Chris Pryor has a personality about as low-key as they come.
In other words, you won't find him jumping up and down when someone drops a prospect report on his desk.
But even Pryor cracks a smile when someone mentions this...

Nick Luukko, who played the final few games of the 2014-15 Lehigh Valley Phantoms season on an amateur tryout, has signed a one-year AHL contract with the team for the 2015-16 season, the team's 20th anniversary season and its second in the Lehigh...

One of the reasons the Flyers don't have a particularly successful history with top-round European draft picks is because they don't have much of a history to begin with.
Aside from taking Peter Forsberg sixth overall (a no-brainer) in 1991, Dainius...

Would Flyers consider trading a No. 1 draft pick?
Would Flyers consider trading a No. 1 draft pick?
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Would Flyers consider trading a No. 1 draft pick?
Up, down or stay put.
Those are the three options for the Flyers at this...

VOORHEES — Situation: Critical.
That's the word Flyers general manager Ron Hextall employed to describe what next week's NHL Entry Draft means to his franchise.
Since the day 13 months ago when Hextall arrived, he's been preaching a patient,...

There's no such thing as overpreparation when it comes to drafting 18-year-old hockey players.
That's why there's a healthy contingent of Flyers scouts and personnel evaluators at this week's NHL Draft Combine in Buffalo.
Director of scouting Chris...

There’s no such thing as overpreparation when it comes to drafting 18-year-old hockey players.
That’s why there’s a healthy contingent of Flyers' scouts and personnel evaluators at this week’s NHL Draft Combine in Buffalo.
Director of scouting Chris...

One of the Flyers' top prospects is defenseman Travis Sanheim and on Thursday they signed one of his Calgary Hitmen (Western Hockey League) teammates, Radel Fazleev, to an entry-level contract.Fazleev, a 6-foot-1, 188-pound left wing, was a sixth-round...

Matt Murray has become to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms what Freddie Kreuger is to Elm Street.
Murray, the rookie goalie for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, unleashed what can only be called "Nightmare on Hamilton Street" on Wednesday night...

In the brief history of the Phantoms playing in the Lehigh Valley, there have been two hat tricks for the team, and both have been scored by second-year pro Nick Cousins.The 21-year-old center, who received CCM/AHL Player of the Month honors in January,...

There are just a few things in life more important to a hockey player than a hockey game.
Probably topping the list is the birth of a child.
Which is why Flyers forward Matt Read hopped on a plane Monday and headed back to Philadelphia to be with his...

Only one thing could prevent Kimmo Timonen from returning to the Flyers and finishing his career here.
A legitimate chance to win a Stanley Cup.
The veteran defenseman, who spent six months battling back from a blood disorder which created clots in...

Rookie goalie Anthony Stolarz's second call-up this month by the Philadelphia Flyers was short-lived.
Stolarz, the 6-6, 220-pound first-year pro, was sent back to Lehigh Valley on Wednesday afternoon after officially being called-up on Tuesday morning to...

VOORHEES – Nick Schultz signed on with the Flyers as a seventh defenseman last summer, but boy the times have changed.
After a much better than expected season, Schultz was rewarded on Wednesday with a two-year, $4.5 million contract extension.
Schultz,...